The Ignite 2019 announcements highlighted updates and enhancements across Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, and Azure, with a focus on security, usability, and integration features. Key developments included the introduction of lightweight SharePoint site collections, improved task management, new communication tools, and advanced automation capabilities. Azure announcements focused on resource management and analytics, showcasing new services like Azure Arc and Azure Synapse Analytics.

1. Ignite 2019 announcements
Chris O’Brien
Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform and Azure

2. Teams Ignite 2019 announcements
Set security at channel level
across conversations/files etc.
Creates "lightweight"
SharePoint site collection per
channel, but can be extended
Work with metadata, share,
rich previews, see people
cards (showing recent files
etc.), joined-up activity across
Teams/SharePoint
Emergency calls, queueing,
admin controls, call delegation
etc.
Move conversation to Teams
from e-mail (and vice-versa -
Teams chat to Outlook)
Shows tasks from Planner, To
Do, Outlook and Teams
channels.
Including templates for
brainstorming, sprint planning
and product planning
Available in chat or channel
conversations
Multi-windowing (pop out
window to stay in context) and
pinned channels for navigation
Defined attendee/presenter
controls, live captions (English
at first), management of
Teams Rooms
(config/monitoring of devices
etc), new rooms hardware
Embeds Yammer experience as
top-level app, to join
inner/outer loops
Simple sign-in with phone
number and SMS passcode
(like Kaizala)
Facilitates B2C healthcare
consultations, job interviews
etc. through browser or
mobile app
Makers can easily publish a
Power App to Teams, users can
pin to left rail
New app catalog, app policies
to drive standardization
Private channels New call capabilities Share e-mail to Teams Consolidated tasks in TeamsNew file experiences
Whiteboard integration Better multi-tasking Better meetings Yammer app for TeamsPolls and surveys
Now Now End 2020
Now End 2019 Early 2020 Early 2020
Early 2020 Early 2020
Various
SMS Sign-In for Firstline Workers Power Apps integration Apps enhancementsVirtual Consults
Early 2020 Preview now End 2020 Early 2020
Chris O’Brien
www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com

3. SharePoint
Ignite 2019
announcements
Project Cortex/
Knowledge Network
Centred on a Knowledge Center featuring key topics, experts and content
within your organization. Generated by AI and curated by humans. March 2020
Multi-lingual
capabilities
View page content in alternative languages, with translation support for
authors (e.g. notifications, highlighted changes in new page version). Soon
Fluid Framework Build experiences to provide simultaneous live updates within Office docs,
SharePoint pages, Teams messages and more. Private preview now
Teamify Simpler way to add Team to existing SharePoint site, with auto-creation of tabs
for selected lists, libraries and pages. Now
Authoring
improvements
Small header option, page scheduling, new web parts (e.g. "My feed", Yammer
conversations v2), new footer options, in-built images, version diffs etc. Various
SharePoint list
enhancements
Column/row formatting designer (creates JSON), PowerApps for document
libraries, card view designer, connected web parts. Soon
Home Sites Generally available. Now
Mobile app updates Including support for your org branding. Soon
Megamenu
navigation targeting
Personalized links in header navigation (based on AAD Group membership).
Soon
New limits 50GB max file size (100GB for OneDrive) and 2m site collections (or Teams) per
tenant. Now to H1 2020
Differential sync Now for ALL file types (not just Office). Now to H1 2020
Free self-service
migration option
Plan and execute a FREE migration from Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, Egnyte
and other providers without specialist skills, powered by Mover. Early 2020Chris O’Brien
www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com

4. Power Platform – Ignite 2019 announcements
• Flow is now "Power Automate", PowerApps is now
"Power Apps“ - (product renames). Now
• UI Flows - new Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
capability which can record and replay screen input (via
keyboard/mouse) to automate testing or repetitive
processes (Selenium-based). Preview now
• Share canvas Power Apps with guests * - users outside
your org can now use your Power Apps (existing guests
only). Now
• Power Virtual Agents - new bot-building capability to easily
create bots with no/low code. Uses Bot Framework and
LUIS underneath. End 2019
• AI Builder updates - identify key phrases, sentiment,
language from text or documents with no code. Use OCR to
extract specified parts of documents, even if hand-written.
Preview now
• Power Apps/Teams integration - publish Power App as
Teams app in company app library and pin to Teams left rail,
and new Teams triggers/actions for Power Automate. End
2019
• Power BI/Teams integration - new Power BI interactive
data card in Teams conversations. 2020
Chris O’Brien
www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com
* NOTE - guests must have access to underlying
data sources/connectors and have a license
assigned. Some connectors do not support guest
access e.g. CDS, Excel, Dynamics, HTTP with
Azure AD, and Planner

5. Azure 2019
announcements
• Azure Arc - Azure management for resources on your
infrastructure or other cloud. Manage Windows and Linux servers,
applications, Kubernetes clusters, IOT devices, deploy SQL Azure etc.
Preview now
• Azure Synapse Analytics - evolution of SQL Data Warehouse.
Big Data analytics and processing for structured and unstructured
data. Ingest, explore, analyze, visualize. Preview now
• Azure Bastion GA - reduced surface area for high security
access to VMs on private networks (no public IP needed). Now
• New ultra large VM sizes - up to 96 vCPUs, 384 GB of RAM, and
2400 GBs of SSD based temporary storage. Now
• Networking enhancements - IPv6 VNETs, Azure Peering
Service (service provider optimized routing/QoS for MSFT services),
Azure Private Link and Azure Firewall Manager enhancements, Azure
WAN GA (branch connectivity). Various
• PAAS enhancements - Azure Functions PowerShell support,
improved monitoring and Premium plan now GA. Now
• Management capabilities - Azure Cost Management for CSP
partners (now), Azure Monitor improvements (IaaS and PaaS,
including Kubernetes monitoring and Network Insights). Now
Chris O’Brien
www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com

6. Roadmaps (selected)